Even If Barack Obama decides to provide Ukraine with weapons, the American bureaucracy and lack of side arms tightened supplies for months, writes the American magazine.

American bureaucracy is not very responsive Even on already given to the team, says the Creator of the article: "Logistics delays already prevented deliveries of non-lethal weapons. At the beginning of last year, Kiev filed a petition for help, but dry food only arrived in March. Kit came to Ukraine in June, a communication system - in July, the helmets in the last month of summer. The night vision devices made it to Ukraine in September, and radar to locate enemy mortars - generally only in November and December." The journalist quotes the words of one senior official American bureaucrat: "If the night vision was so difficult to deliver to Ukraine, the supply of portable antitank missile systems is from the realm of fantasy ".

in addition to bureaucratic delays, there is another serious problem: in the U.S. there are no stocks of parts of weapons systems. Because of this, the government will have to order them from manufacturers and wait for the output, which can take several months.

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